The temperature on February 18, 1893 was about 4.5 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
March 1 » Electrical engineer Nikola Tesla gives the first public demonstration of radio in St. Louis, Missouri.
July 9 » Daniel Hale Williams, American heart surgeon, performs the first successful open-heart surgery in United States without anesthesia.
August 15 » Ibadan area becomes a British Protectorate after a treaty signed by Fijabi, the Baale of Ibadan with the British acting Governor of Lagos, George C. Denton.
September 28 » Foundation of the Portuguese football club FC Porto.
November 1 » The Battle of Bembezi took place and was the most decisive battle won by the British in the First Matabele War of 1893.
November 28 » Women's suffrage in New Zealand concludes with the 1893 New Zealand general election.
Day of marriage July 25, 1917
The temperature on July 25, 1917 was between 13.1 °C and 25.0 °C and averaged 18.9 °C. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (11%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
January 22 » World War I: President Woodrow Wilson of the still-neutral United States calls for "peace without victory" in Europe.
March 11 » World War I: Mesopotamian campaign: Baghdad falls to Anglo-Indian forces commanded by General Stanley Maude.
July 17 » King George V issues a Proclamation stating that the male line descendants of the British Royal Family will bear the surname Windsor.
September 14 » The Russian Empire is formally replaced by the Russian Republic.
December 9 » World War I: Field Marshal Allenby captures Jerusalem, Palestine.
December 12 » Father Edward J. Flanagan founds Boys Town as a farm village for wayward boys.
Day of death January 12, 1949
The temperature on January 12, 1949 was between 0.7 °C and 5.2 °C and averaged 2.6 °C. There was 2.5 mm of rain during 2.5 hours. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (55%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
February 19 » Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University.
April 18 » The Republic of Ireland Act comes into effect.
July 20 » The Israel–Syria Mixed Armistice Commission brokers the last of four ceasefire agreements to end the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
August 5 » In Ecuador, an earthquake destroys 50 towns and kills more than 6,000.
October 3 » WERD, the first black-owned radio station in the United States, opens in Atlanta.
November 2 » The Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference ends with the Netherlands agreeing to transfer sovereignty of the Dutch East Indies to the United States of Indonesia.
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